Rack.



C. W. SAFFORD.

RACK.

APPLICATION HLED MAR. I0. 1915.

Patented Nov. 20, 1917.

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C. W. SAFFORD.

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APPLICATION FILED MAR. 10.1915. I

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W. SAFFORD, OF I BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 20, 1917.

Application filed March 10, 1915. Serial No. 13,358.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. SAFFORD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brockton,.in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented cer tain Improvements inRacks, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings indicating like parts in the several figures. g

This invention relates to racks. Its object is to provide a rack which will support tact with one another, and yet permit all th objects to be grasped or removed at one time.

.objects of flat or extended form-out of coite-klipwardly from it in parallel planes.

A feature of my mvention 1s a rack for supporting a plurality of objects, comprising a supporting frame and a separating means so related that the objects and supporting frame on the one hand, and the separating means on the other hand, can be relatively moved to discontinue the separated relation of the objects and permit them to be gathered together.

Another feature of my invention'is a rack having a supporting frame and a separator frame which can be moved out of operative position relative to objects supported on the frame.

A further feature of my invention is a separating means and a device constructed and arranged to move relatively to each other to terminate the separated relationof the objects supported thereby. I

Other features of the. invention, comprising certain combinations and arrangements of parts will be described in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

Theinvention is shown embodied in a cutsole rack used for the purpose of supporting a'number of cut-soles out of contact with one another for drying purposes. In the use of racks for this purpose, as heretofore constructed, it was necessary to remove the soles individually and this required a good deal of time. The rack shown in the drawingsis so constructed that the soles, when dried, may be removed from it all at once.

In the drawings, which show one embodiment of the invention in a cut-solerack I a Figure l is a perspective of the rack as it appears when supporting the undried soles, an

rating means dropped to release the soles.

The main frame 1 is supported in any de sired way so that there is suitable free space beneath it. The separator frame 2' is sit- Fig. 2 is a perspective showing the sepauated within theframe 1 and is pivoted to I it at one side on the pintles 3. The separator frame 2 carries the fingers 4 which extend The button 5 on the pivot 6 extends under the rame 2 and keeps it from dropping. The damp soles are placed between the fingers 4 with their ends resting on the sides of the frame 1. When the soles are ready for the next operation which is to be performed on them,.the operator turns the button 5'anrl releases the frame .2, which turns about its pivots 3 dropping the fingers 4 down from between the soles. The soles can then be picked up all at once between the operators hands and removed.

handling all sorts of objects whose lateral dimensions are great relatively to their thickness, such as platters, plates, saucers, photographic plates, molded soles, chair seats, etc. It is my intention that the term flat as used in this application shall be interpreted so broadly as to include such ob- 'ects.

- 1 Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Statesis 1. A sole rack comprising a sole-supporting frame, and a separator comprising members constructed and arranged to support the soles laterally out of contact with one another, said frame and separator being constructed and arranged to be movable out of operative relation with each other leav-.

constructed and arranged to permit the operative relation between the se arator and the objects to be broken, leaving the objects supported by the frame.

3. A rack comprising a supporting frame, and a separating means constructed and arranged to be movable out of operative relation to the objects supported by said frame.

4. A rack for supporting substantially fiat objects comprising a supporting frame, and a separator for supporting said objects out of contact With one another, constructed taining said separator in operative relation with said objects.

7. A rack for supporting objects comprising separating means, in combination with a device constructed and arranged to permit naaepao relative movement between said separating means and said device, and to remove the objects from said separating means upon said relative movement.

8. A rack comprising separating means having partitions and a device constructed and arranged to move relatively to each other to terminate the separated relation of the objects supported by the rack, leaving the objects supported by the device.

9. A rack comprising a support, and a separating means having partitions con structed and arranged to support objects held by the rack out of contact With one another, and to move through said support, to release said objects.

10. A rack comprising a separator having partitions constructed and arranged to hold fiat objects in separated position, and a member constructed and arranged to permit said partitions to be projected and retracted through it.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CHARLES W. SAFFORD. Witnesses:

Gino. N. GORDON, HERBERT J. SINCLAIR. 

